The Work of UNRRA
The meetings of the Council of UNRRA have shown that while much is now being done still more remains to be done, and that it will be necessary both to extend the areas over which it operates and to provide more money. There is still much work to be done in helping displaced people and still more in the provision of food, clothing, coal, raw materials and transport. Some countries are suffering more intensely than others. In the west, it is Holland which is most urgently in need of assistance. But Europe for the purposes of rehabilitation is one. Its problems, in terms of scarcities, are the same, as M. Massigh pointed out, whether a country is paying for what it receives or not ; and so also for certain ex-enemy countries, such as Italy and Austria, whose inclusion in the scope of UNRRA work was urged by Mr. William Clayton, of the United States. Nor can its activities be restricted to Europe. China, grateful for help already received, requires far more, and a complaint was made by the delegate for Ethiopia that UNRRA had not started to operate in his country, though it had been the first to be liberated. UNRRA must extend its activities, and must do more where it is already active if distressed countries are to get through the terrors of the coming winter. For these purposes more money will be required. Mr. Noel Baker promised that Britain would do her share.
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